TELEGRAMS.
(Pee United Pbess Association.) Auckland, November 23. It is stated that Messrs Waiker and Benn, proprietors of the Monavale estate of 17,000 acres, three miles from Cambridge, Waikato, have offered the property to the Government Ifc is nearly all laid down in grass. By order of the Supreme Court, Wellington, Meek, of Palmerston North, has been released on his paying £100 and entering into a bond of £50 to appear at the court at Wellington until discharged. The body of a female child waa found in a box under the Queen street wharf. The body had apparently been three dayß in the water. Wellington, November 23. An amended notice in the Gazette makes the bonus on starch payable on 100 tons manufactured in each of the years 1893 and 189*, not 1891 and 1895 as previously gazetted. The Public Trustee notifies that he intends to take possession of unclaimed land in North Harbour and Blueskin district, Otago. The rainfall at the principal centres for October was—Auckland, l-07 inches; days of rain, 10; maximum fall, o'3B inches, on the 23rd. Lincoln, 056 inches; rained on six days. Wellington, 12-30 inches; rain fell on nine days; maximum, 1-15 inches, on the 13th. Dunedin, 563 inches ; rain fell on 16 days ; maximum, 2'lo, inches on the 10th. Mr R. Beetham is appointed returning officer for Christehurch, vice Colonel Lean, deceased. Another batch of 50 letters of naturalisation, issued under the Aliens Act, is gazetted. Blenheim, 23. At the Supreme Court sessions, before Mr Justice Richmond, Robert White, of Havelock, charged with alleged attempted rape on a girl, was acquitted ; Angus H'Coll, for alleged false pretences, was acquitted; Arthur William Lummis, for attempting an indecent assault on a married woman, was sentenced to one year's hard labour in Wellington Gaol. Christchcrch, November 23. The cargo of coal on board the s.s. Rosamond it Lyotelton caught fire this afternoon. The Ire was extinguished before much damage was lone.
The late Colonel Lean was accorded a military funeral this afternoon. All the volunteer corps in North Canterbury took part.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 9904, 24 November 1893, Page 2
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344TELEGRAMS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 9904, 24 November 1893, Page 2
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